A PERMACULTURE REFUGEE PROJECT
Teach permaculturists and refugees to transform refugee lives and land in camps, and settlements
and Establish new models for these challenging situations now and for the future.
Homes sandbagged against topical rain Photo BASD with permission
SUMMARY
There is little argument that the number of refugees and Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in the world, and now estimated to be 50 million, will increase with climate change and world politics. Mass migration is an inevitable part of the pattern of human behaviour and will continue to be so depending on push factors. And at the moment refugees spend an average of 12 years in camps waitng for reassignment and resettlement. This is a long time for host nations and a loss of opportunity: an opportunity to see refugees as bringers of extensive benefits for the host national interests, land restoration, and a boost to the economy.
And yet, with a few exceptions the situation of refugees and IDPs remains morally and physically repugnant. See link http://time.com/4547918/refugee-camps-calais-zaatari-dadaab-nakivale-mae-la/
The problems align and consolidate and some are:
· structural such as overcrowding,
· poor quality and quantity of food,
· enforced idleness accompanied by loss of skills and confidence
to:
· poor health options and outcomes
· criminality in camps
· psychological problems
· youth miss out on education and opportunitiese
The average time spent in a refugee camp is 12 years and only …1% are resettled in a new life. Lives are lost to poverty and uncertainty.
The UNHCR has guidelines however it is barely able to meet the needs of those camps it manages, and certainly not those of IDPs. The World Food Program (WFP) is stretched almost to its limits to supply food and that is being increasingly cut back.
This project argues that for relatively little cost, and that mainly in education, camps can be transformed, and lives lived valuably with sustainable outputs through introducting permaculture design principles into camps, and NGOs, to enable camps to be transformed into productive livelihoods and land. And refugees to own the project and run it in the longer term. It also complies with the new Global Compact being designed by UNHCR
[1]
This project focuses on four sites and five coursesin south Asia, Middle East, and Europe to assess the most effective permaculture syllabus, and to train permaculturists who wish to work in this situation, and also produce refugee trainers.
Each globally recognised Permaculture Design Course(PDC) will be comprised of:
· local people, such as a school or government department to ensure the knowledge will be sustainable;
· some experienced permaculturists who want to work in camps, and,
· two or more people from P4R will be there to observe, and later draw together the commonalities to allow a general syllabus , guidelines and recommendations to be drawn up for the future use of refugees, camp managers, NGOs and teachers.
Permaculture for Refugees (P4R) after 18 months research, preparation, experience, consideration and design for monitoring contacts in camps, is particularly well placed to deliver the program and to assist with the scaling up and these solutions to be accepted and offered globally.
CONTENTS
THE NEED
SUMMARY
PROJECT GOALS
OBJECTIVES
ACTIVITIES
BUDGET
TIMING
OUTPUTS
OUTCOMES
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
RISK ASSESSMENT
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
STAGE II
CONCLUSIONS
APPENDICES
Details of each project site
Monitoring and evaluative instruments
THE NEED
Globally, there is an urgent need for better models of camps for refugees, and Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs). Camps and settlements are places of suffering and degradation which ignore the abilities and potential of residents, formerly responsible citizens, to be involved in, and rebuild their lives. [2]See vido in appendices
Refugees are prevented from taking advantage of this time to heal, learn new skills and ideas, and engage in activities to build better futured whether they return home, or stay in a new community.[3]
The goals of this project align completely, with the UNHCR and WFP latest report [4]
This project is stage I in a longer program. Only seed funding is sought at this time.
As the photo shows,in this IDP camp in Kabul, none of life’s basic needs is met here. Photo: R Morrow, 2018
Camp managers are challenged especially in large camps, faced with considerable social and economic problems and a top down approach to management.[5]
Refugee organisations are aware that confined/closed camps with residents unable to use their skills and experience lead to problems presently being experienced in parts of Europe.[6]
Disturbed by the size of the problem, lack of globally committed finances to meet needs, and, projections of future needs e.g. figures of 200 million refugees by the middle of the century have been quoted, refugee organisations are aware of and looking for different approaches. [7]
World Food Project has said it will probably not be able to supply food and vouchers to the extent it does now.
Kitchen garden for nutrition, sanitation, occupation Bangladesh Association for Sustainable Development works with Rohinga refugees 2018 (with permission BASD)
Permaculture offers a humane, integrated response to refugees living in degraded conditions in camps, and for NGOS and managers increasingly stressed by lack of good models and practices.
QSA Q1. Why use permaculture in the camps? Permaculture is an inclusive design system that involves the integration of a whole host of disciplines in the pursuit of sustainable objectives. Some of these include: water harvesting, soil building, intensive ‘clean’ planting, forestry, animal husbandry, local economies, access to land, passive solar building design, food forests and consideration of present and future needs through the lens of the precautionary and intergenerational principles. Since its emergence in 1972 there has been no comparable network and systems approach as commonsense, and as necessary to buffer degradation. It is eminently suited to refugee settlements and camps where people can claim agency for their lives whilst transforming the land.
QSA Q2. Has the approach for the courses come from within or outside the camps? The first approaches came from World Vision International in Iraq where there was a permaculturist on staff. See re: Report. Applications for this project came from Greece and Bangladesh.
Currently it is being implemented through a variety of NGOs and individual permaculturists in several countries. However the needs are great. See references.
EARLY EVIDENCE FOR CHANGE See appendices
· The first PDC course taught in a camp in Kurdistan, Iraq 2017 offered hope and positive outcomes
· A PDC course with a refugee community in Spain demonstrated the similar positive results
· The Italian permaculture experience with a refugee settlement at Con Moi, near Torino, has given positive outcomes
· Permaculture classes have begun in Kabul for some of the 1.8 million IDPs living on the edge of Kabul by Afghan Peace Volunteers trained in permaculture.
· Soils Lebanon, a permaculture organisation, works through teaching gardening in camps
· The University of Coventry and Oak leaf/Lemon Tree project in camps in Kurdistan.
· Permaculture kitchen garden project in Bangladesh is being well implemented. See photo
· Numerous references attest to increased social and psychological wellbeing created by kitchen garden projects
PROJECT GOALS
Short term
· Establish that permaculture, through teaching sustainable skills in environmental, social and economic fields is an opportunity to empower refugees to become effective in every case, whether enablinging people to return home with skills and ability, or supporting them to stay in their new country and contribute significantly to a better future.
· Offer permaculture training in four different refugee camps - three in Europe and two in SE Asia (where there would be two courses) and to compare and evaluate similariites and differences to determine future best practice, draw up guidelines and recommendations.
· Enable refugee participants and experienced permaculturists to design and implement whole site plans and to train both groups to teach effectively in other camps to scale up the impact for major refugee involvement in the Permaculture for refugees (P4R) project.
Long term
· Transform all refugee and IDP camps, and settlements globally, into ecological villages and towns which contribute to the good of the new country, and refugees, through becoming the predominant model.
OBJECTIVES Permaculture for Refugees (P4R) in three different sites
1. Teach 14-16 day permaculture design course (PDC) in camps which request or support the courses
2. Follow up with a six-day permaculture teacher training course for experienced permaculture teachers
3. Write up the experience and monitor its impact for six months
4. Extend the knowledge and skills to other camps and settlements
ACTIVITIES
· Offer participation to refugees and permaculturists in a 2:1 ratio, including people with disabilities, women and youth in the globally recognised Permaculture Design Course
· Include two people from the Permaculture for refugees P4R organisation
· Include two local permaculture teachers who can carry the project forward
· Teach specific design skills for whole site development not only kitchen gardening
· Deliver a six-day follow-up permaculture teacher training for selected participants who become confident to teach in refugee camp environments
· Monitor design implementation in the camp
· Monitor refugee trainers as they extend knowledge to other refugees in the camps
· Monitor new permaculture teachers in other camps
· P4R Evaluate and disseminate the combined results from three sites
Courses 1 and 2: Bangladesh Association of Sustainable Development (BASD) and local Bangladesh Department of Agriculture staff, then Rohinga refugees in Bangladesh
Course 3: Refugees in Greece on Lesvos Island
Course 4: Women’s PDC in Turkey for longterm refugees
Course 5: Long term refugees Mediterranean PermaSchool in Greece
Project Site
|
Organisation
|
Name
|
Budget
|
TOTAL
|
Bangladesh
Cox’s Bazaar
|
BASD
|
PDC for host community
|
|
17,729.39
|
|
|
|
PDC for Rohinga refugees
|
|
19,967.35
|
Greece- Lesvos
|
|
PDC for long term refugges
|
|
7,961,00
|
Greece - Nea Macri, Greece
|
Mediterranean
Permaschool
|
PDC for school staff and local refugees
|
|
13,659.00
|
Turkey
|
|
PDC for women
|
|
5.000.00
|
$AUD TOTAL $65,316.00
TIMING
Training
will begin when funding is available and will be completed within one year
(excluding the impact or natural or social disasters such as tsunami, war,
drought. i.e. force majeure). It is
proposed to start in Bangladesh in mid-January 2019 and finish in Turkey in
April 2019
OUTCOMES
·
At
least 50% of participants able to teach refugees in camps and in the community
·
Site
designs exhibited for consultation with the whole community
·
Implementation
begins to transform camps and communities
·
Model
permaculture kitchen and community gardens for harvesting, learning income
skills and experience
·
Residents
engaged in a variety of projects from grey water harvesting, to climate
buffering, and local currencies
·
Residents
motivated and engaged in projects both for income development and income
substitution
These
project activities and results will attract attention of the those engaged with
and responsible for refugees. This world
is increasingly looking for solutions to the present models.
This
project will lead to refugees organising and managing camps for food, learning
and actitivies towards a future with greater promise than in today’s camps,
through transforming them into ecological villages and townships.
OUTPUTS
· Five permaculture
design courses in four different sites for permaculturists and refugees - to
develop food, water management, buffer climate extremes, and introduce income
generation
· Display designs for
community consultation and subsequent implementation
· Begin implementation of
the designs
· Write up the experience
and monitor its impact for six months
· Extend the knowledge
and skills to other camps and settlements
· Mentor new trainers
MANAGEMENT
QSA Q3. Will Permaculture for refugees be
the ultimate leader of this project – if so, please tell me a bit more about
them, or if not, please tell me who will be leading the project and why.
QSA Q4 How will the project
be managed over several sites and quality of training, monitoring, reporting
maintained? Who is responsible for the
project and maintaining the records and how can this be achieved by a person
across three sites?
The
project will be managed by Permaculture
for Refugees, a group of permaculturists that has been working together for
two years and has produced booklets, data bases, some case studies and
evaluative documents. It has already
received LUSH funds for a project in Kabul.
LUSH is offering other financial support for extending the project.
All
finances are recorded through the BigFix.org, a not-for-profit organisation
with transparent and audited accounts and monthly, and annual meetings. It
sponsors the Blue Mountains Permaculture which it is accountable to it. The accounts would
be open for scrutiny. https://www.thebigfix.org/about-us
Most
expenditure is for human resources and each course has limited funds which
would mostly fully expended as the course is taught.
Refugees
will be encouraged to monitor the project results and to become part of the P4R
group to share their results.
RISK ASSESSMENT
QSA Q5 Security of
personnel going into the camps to provide training – how will this be addressed
and by whom?
Camps
are places of utmost security since most fear that terrorists could be
operating within them. There are
special phones, trained drivers, and special insurance firms. Teachers are always with a crowd and never
alone. There are no dangers in the classrooms
or on the land. The fieldwork is simple
and low risk i.e. compost making and seedsowing. P4R also has an honorary international lawyer
as their consultant for any challenging situation.
QSA Q6. What form of debriefing is to be provided to
them all at the end of their time in the camps or during if issues arise for
them?
P4R
has a specialist French psychologist, Nadia Polivka, on their panel who has worked for 20+ years
within the French Government Refugee program and would be responsible for this aspect
of the program.
QSA Q7 If QSA is to provide the letter for the
visa, then it is responsible for all security aspects as it is asking them to
go. The visa applications are made by the NGOs in each
country i.e. BASD in Bangladesh, The Mediterranean Permaschool in Greece and
others as listed. QSA will not be asked
to provide a visa letter.
There
are few risks associated with the project in delivering its objectives. However the main risks may be lack of safety
in a few situations. New teachers may
have difficulty or experience a shock reaction in coming to terms with the
lives refugees are forced to live. With this in mind, orientation and
debriefing sessions will be included at the onset. See question 6 above.
Many
aspects of the refugees life contains uncertainty. It is possible that a camp or settlement may
close before the course is delivered, or, that it may be closed to the project
for other reasons, in most cases P4R
would be able to find other venues.
Projects
carried out and similar to these, show that refugees are keen to participate
and find activities useful in the short and long term to assist with managing
the stress of enforced inactivity and uncertainty, and also the courses build community
group cohesion while ameliorating harsh camp environments.
QSA
Q8. How do you
measure the success of a permaculture training course in a refugee camp?
The
success of the PDC training outcomes is measured by the results demonstrated on
the ground by those who have undertaken the training by comparison with those
who have not. In each case where there
have been permaculture projects, those who received training were able to:
·
Conserve
and use grey water
·
Build
soils
·
Grow
vegetables
·
Engage
others
· Work cooperatively
·
P4R
has evaluative tools and tables.
1. Monitoring
the teaching and immediate impacts. P4R has instruments for monitoring impacts. The teacher, content, process and student
outcomes are evaluated halfway through the course and at the end.
2. Monitoring
the design implementation. P4R would look for triangulation results i.e.
a.
From the refugees
b.
From the hosting organisation
c.
From local permaculturists who ‘pair’ with new teachers
3.
Monitoring
the new trainers. This
is more complicated and they will need to be mentored. Possibilities are:
a.
P4R
b.
Local permaculture teachers and experienced NGO staff
c.
Invite other teachers to mentor from nearby countries/provinces and from
the European Permaculture Teachers network
4.
Monitor
new teachers in other camps. These teachers will need mentored assistance in their own camps first. Evaluative
Document designed by P4R – see below and will be used in all training see
Appendices
STAGE II
Follow up with a six day permaculture teacher training course for
refugee trainers
Evaluation
meeting for European trainers, both refugee and non-refugee
Evaluation
meeting for SE Asian trainers, both refugee and non-refugee
Publish final
permaculture curriculum for camps and settlements
Set up
support systems for refugee trainers in camps and settlements
Monitor
gardens and teaching in camps
CONCLUSIONS
Most gardening projects in refugee camps show proud refugees standing
before their vegetable gardens and this is commendable. However the land, the climate and the water
are not necessarily remediated. The
sites are very often degraded by large numbers of people. People live in camps without opportunities
to increase their incomes or enhance their skills, or learn new ones.
This project will train 175 people of which three quarters are refugees
will be able to design problems that present for sanitation, food and climate
change. Socially they will develop
learning groups, and internal economies to meet their needs. Some will become trainers and all will be
monitored by experience permaculturists.
Experienced permaculturists will participate to learn teaching in
camps. They will form collegiate
relationships with camp trainers whom their will support over the next six to
12 months. Those who will teach will be
offered a permaculture teacher training course.
P4R has a data base of permaculturists working globally with refugees
and those who wish to, and in addition has monitoring and evaluative
instruments for collation of data. This
will all be made available on the website and offered to all organisations and
governments working with refugees.
This is stage I of a longer term program. Stage II will be developed from the results
of this project. Stage II will be essentially
a ‘scaling up’ of the project using knowledge gained to enable better learning
by, and for, refugees. Stage II will
involve refugees in sharing their knowledge and skills first in their own camps,
and then in other camps.
It is anticipated that this Stage I over different sites will
demonstrate common successes and also challenges of introducing permaculture
into refugee environments. It will
result in increased motivation, and a healthier living area for all those
involved.
Rowe Morrow
Blue
Mountains Permaculture Institute, BMPI.com.au
Permaculture
for Refugees (P4R) July 22, 2018
BMLM,
NSW Regional Meeting.
BUDGET and BACKGROUND DETAILS FOR EACH SITE
1.
Bangladesh – two courses
2.
Greece – Lesvos
3.
Mediterranean Permaschool, Greece
4.
Turkey
Site 1 Two
PDCs at Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh
Background:
The situation in Bangladesh for Rohaninga
refugees exiled by the Myanmar Government army is dire. Their living conditions are inhumane. Most are too frightened to return and they
are not strongly welcomed by the Bangladesh government who would like them to
return home. The PDC needs to be slanted
towards the possibility of returning because this may become mandatory for
some. Small scale activities are
necessary where land is at a premium because of the large numbers of refugees
in a very small space.
Information supplied by
Bangaldesh Association for Sustainable Development (BASD), a permaculture
organisation which has had success with permaculture initiatives. See
appendices and photos)
A multi-generational family – with all
their possessions – live in this room
May
8 email from BASD: “They have hundreds
of problems and needs. Immediate needs are - 1) assistance for prevention of
land sliding as rain started, many of the houses are in real risk and in
danger, grasses may be planted there, 2) need shade / place need mustto be
cooler, no trees within 4/5 km, plantation like Neem and other wood, fruit and
medicinal plants needed, 3) need to teach them waste management, it is a big
crisis in everywhere, it is easier to engage those people for doing this, just
need inspiration and guidance, 4) need to teach / inspire the community people
for cultivation of vegetables beside their rooms, on ground / hanging using
sack bag / pots etc. it is not easy but very important, it is possible using
permaculture techniques. When we talked to them, people showed keen interest of
doing these works. Little vegetables are available in the nearby shops or
villages, if available then price is very high”.
Smallscale
activities are necessary where land is at a premium because of the large
numbers of refugees in a very small space.
26 July: Recent
brief news: People are locked inside the small rooms without cooking as there
is very limited fire wood at home and as there was continuous heavy rain.
Women, children and others are in the open field for
defaecating as there are very few latrines and arrangement.
Pregnant women are in great problem as there are no
Midwives in the camp and the only nearby clinics is closed from 3 pm to 10 am
on the following day.
No social area for the children, women and other were
seen.
No cultivation was seen as they are very much
frustrated and living hopeless living.
Regards and peace.
Boniface
Wed,
Aug 1, 2018 at 5:10 PM, Boniface Gomes<bsgomes52@gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear
Rosemary,
Good
day. I just met one of the high Govt. Official and discussed about the
possibility of conducting the PDC and PDC based activities. Govt. is
pleased with the discussion and inspired us for the program. So, we can
apply for PDC and PDC based activities for the Rohinga and the host community. I
will write you more about the needs of host community and Rohinga for your
preparing documents.
PDC No 1 - Draft Budget for Host Community
Participants:
24 community people, especially women, youths and students
from local host
communities.
Days: 12 teaching days excluding Fridays for
religious observances
Time:
9.30 am to 4.30 pm
Trainers: Rosemary
Morrow (lead trainer), Ruth Harvey, and possibly Sarah
Queblatin from
Philippines, Boniface Gomes and Ajit Khan (BASD)
Language: Bengali
Timing: From January to March 2019
!
AUD=61.27 taka (August 15, 2018)
Materials
|
Per unit/day
|
Number
|
Total Taka
|
1. Stationery and supply
|
|||
White board
String, Bulldog clips, Pens, Poster paper, banner, writing
etc.
Printing &
Photocopying
Projector
Books/pens, Rulers, Scissors, Erasers, Bags, Others Stationery
|
1,000
20,000
8,000
500
-
|
12 days
-
|
1,000
20,000
8,000
6,000
30,000
1,000
|
Sub-total
|
66,000
|
||
2. Resource persons
|
|||
Fees for Translator and vat
Fees for local trainers -2 and vat
|
3,500
6,000
|
1 per
2 ps.
|
42,000
72,000
|
Total
|
114,000
|
||
3. Accommodation, food, transport
vat for facilitators & trainees
|
|||
Accommodation
Transport &
Meals for 5 Trainers and facilitator
Trainees food, family support for 24
trainees for 12 days
|
2,500
pd,pp
600
|
5
persons, 12 + 4 days
24
persons, 12 days
|
2,00,000
172,800
|
Sub-Total
|
72,800
|
||
4. Trainers Fare and support
|
|||
Fares – Aus-Return
Visas 2*
Insurance
|
2 ps.
|
124,400
18,660
12,220
|
|
Total
|
155,280
|
||
5. Monitoring and Follow-up
2 Volunteers for 6 months
Evaluation and Reporting
|
2
vols. @ Tk. 30,000 per month
|
6
months
|
1,80,000
50,000
|
Total
|
230,000
|
||
6. Other:
Training venue and decoration
Training materials cost
Travelling cost from Dhaka to Cox’s
Bazar and related cost (up and down)
Liaison, documentation, follow up,
composing, Accounts, Audit, photos etc.
|
2,000
|
12
days
4 ps
|
24,000
25,000
40,000
60,000
|
Total Tk.
|
149,000
|
||
Grand Total Tk.
|
1,086,280
|
||
Grand Total in Aus $
|
17,729,39
|
Accommodation – Ukhia, the campsite,
is 45 km distant from the Cox’s Bazar, Trainers will live at Cox’s Bazar
Visas – single entry for one month.
Need invitations from BASD
PDC No 2 - Draft Budget Rohinga Refugees
Participants:
24 Rohinga Refugees, especially women and youths from the Camps.
Days: 18 teaching days excluding Fridays for
religious observances
Time:
10.00 am to 3.00 pm
Trainers: Rosemary
Morrow (lead trainer), Ruth Harvey, Boniface Gomes and Ajit Khan from BASD
Language: Bengali and English with translation in
Ukhia language
Timing: Between January and March 2019
! AUD=61.27 taka (August 15, 2018
Materials
|
Per unit/day
|
Number
|
Total Taka
|
1. Stationery and supply
|
|||
String, Bulldog clips, Pens, Poster paper, banner, writing
etc.
Printing &
Photocopying
Projector
Books/pens, Rulers, Scissors, Erasers, Bags
Other
|
20,000
8,000
500
-
|
-
|
20,000
8,000
6,000
30,000
1000
|
Sub-total
|
65,000
|
||
2. Resource persons
|
|||
*Fees for Translator and vat
Fees for local trainers -2 and vat
|
3,500
6,000
|
1 per
2 ps.
|
63.000
216,000
|
Sub-Total
|
279,000
|
||
3. *Accommodation, food, transport,
vat for facilitators & trainees
|
|||
*Accommodation
*Transport &
*Meals for 5 Trainers and facilitator
Trainees food and family support
cost for 24 trainees for 18 days
|
2,500
pd,pp
600
|
5
persons, 18 days
24
persons, 18 days
|
225,000
259,200
|
Sub-Total
|
484,200
|
||
4. Trainers Fare and support
|
|||
Covered under Host PDC budget
|
.
|
||
5. Follow-up monitoring
2 Volunteers for 6 months
Evaluation and Reporting
|
2
vols. @ Tk. 30,000 per month
|
6
months
|
180,000
50,000
|
Sub-Total
|
230,000
|
||
6. Other:
Training venue and decoration
Training materials cost
Travelling cost from Dhaka to Cox’s
Bazar and related cost (return)
Liaison, documentation, follow up,
composing, Accounts, Audit, photos etc.
|
2,000
|
12
days
4 ps
|
36,000
25,000
40,000
75,000
|
Sub-total Tk.
|
176,000
|
||
Grand Total Tk.
|
1,223.4
|
||
Grand Total in Aus $
|
$19,967.35
|
||
Accommodation – Ukhia, the camp site,
is 45 km distant from the Cox’s Bazar, Trainers will live at Cox’s Bazar
Visas – single entry for one month.
Need invitation from BASD
6. A ‘street’ in a camp with a high population
density –little room for planting
SITE 2 Draft Budget PDC for Lesvos, Greece,
Spring 2019
Background
The situation in Lesvos is that many people
have been here for a long time. Their living conditions are really bad and most
are Syrian and Afghani nationality. Permaculture
promises to bring relief to very difficult living conditions.
Languages are Arabic, Farsi and there are
contracts that could help with translation.
The course will be open to a selection process but no limits on age,
gender, illiteracy etc.
Students: 24
Days: 24 teaching days excluding Fridays for religious
observance
Time: 10.00
am to 3.00 pm
Trainers: Rosemary Morrow (lead trainer), and
one from P4R
Bonnie Claire and one other from the
Centre
4 trainee volunteers will also attend
Languages: Dari and Farsi
1
AUD = 0.642 Euros– 22 July 2018
Materials
|
Per unit/day
|
Total Euros
|
||
Teachers
|
||||
Electricity
Projector
Whiteboard
String
Bulldog clips
Pens
Poster paper
Printing &
Photocopying
|
With venue
May borrow
1
1
1
2 sets
1 roll
|
20c per page
|
300 pages
|
300.00
80.00
3.00
10.00
10.00
60.00
30.00
|
Translators
|
To be decided
|
x 24 days
|
||
Translated
materials
|
||||
Learners
|
To be decided
|
x 24 learners
|
||
Books/pens
Rulers
Scissors
Erasers
|
5.00
1.00
2
1
|
144.00
24.00
10.00
24.00
|
||
Gardening
Materials, pots
Seeds etc.
|
9.00
|
216.00
|
||
Logistics
Accommod’n.
Transport -free
Meals*
|
One month
Rental
30 per week
|
8
|
300.00
240.00
|
|
Trainers
|
||||
Fares – Aus-
Return
Visas 1*
Insurance
|
1562
Free
|
X 1 Aus
X 2
X 2
|
1562.00
|
|
Follow-up
Evaluation
Reporting
Admin.
|
200.00
|
|||
Grand Total
|
Euro 2,504
AUD
|
·
Visas – single entry for one
month - free. Need letter from hosting NGO
SITE 3
Draft Budget PDC for Mediterranean
Permaschool,
Nea Makri, Greece
March/April
2019
Background
Many refugees have been in Greece for a long
time. Their living conditions are really
bad and most are Syrian and Afghani nationality. Permaculture promises to bring relief to very
difficult living conditions.
Languages are Arabic, Farsi and there are
contacts who could help with translation.
The course will be open to a selection process but no limits on age,
gender, illiteracy etc
The organisation is Nea Guinea, Guinea, a non-profit organization, whose mission is
developing the self-reliance and resilience of people and communities
Venue:
Permaculture farm in Nea Makri
Website: www.neaguinea.org
Facebook page: Nea
Email: neaguinea@riseup.net
“This year we started a new educational program that called the Mediterranean
Permaschool. - It is basically a
collective educational project with 10 teachers and 40 students that aims at
bringing people together and creating a network that will work on
adaptingdifferent concepts and techniques on our climate and highlight
permaculture design as a possible way forward in this challenging environment
we are living. And the project is really flying!”
Look at this link:
and
Jump
to
Mediterranean
Permaschool Spring 2018
This spring we have designed a new
Permaculture course focusing on applications relevant to the Mediterranean
climate. This course consists of 10 full day workshops that run on a weekly
basis for a 3 months period (March to May 2018) at the Nea Guinea farm and aim
at introducing a group of 40 young people to Permaculture design and empower
them to make positive changes that will benefit both their communities and the
natural ecosystems that surround them. During this course we are studying and
experimenting with different Permaculture concepts and practices, aiming at
proposing solutions to sustainability issues related to the arrangement of
human activity and the management of natural resources on a farm scale. The
educational activities consist of both theoretical and practical workshops and
are co-facilitated by the Nea Guinea team and 8 more Greek Permaculture
teachers, that are traveling to our farm from different places around the
country to share their extensive knowledge and enthusiasm with the participants.
The course will be concluded with an open Permaculture Day on the farm, where
the participants will present their design work. During the day there will be
open informative events and workshops, activities for kids, music, dance and
awesome organic food form our gardens! This course has been partially funded by
a crowd funding campaign and partially by the participants on a free donation
basis. This funding scheme has made the course accessible to young local people
with limited financial resources – that largely consist our target group.
We have been already teaching Permaculture (PDCs, introductory and
specialized courses) and we can share a lot from our experience on working with
Permaculture in the Mediterranean climate, especially in water management, soil
regeneration, food production systems (Fotini)
And, energy production (Kostas)
Students: 24
Days: 24 teaching days excluding days for religious
observance
Time: 10.00 am to 3.00 pm?
Trainers: Rosemary Morrow (lead trainer), and
two from P4R
Fotini and Kostas = founders of the ecoschool
Languages: Dari and Farsi
1
AUD = 0.642 Euros– 22 July 2018
Materials
|
Per unit/day
|
Total Euros
|
||
Teachers
|
||||
Venue
Electricity
Projector
|
Free
With venue
May borrow
|
100
|
||
Translators
|
150 per day?
|
x 24 days
|
3600
|
|
Translated
materials
|
20 pp/day
|
X 24 students
|
480
|
|
Learners
|
To be decided
|
x 24 learners
|
||
Books/pens
Rulers
Scissors
Erasers
Whiteboard
String
Bulldog clips
Pens
Poster paper
Printing &
Photocopying
|
All covered in
Cost and in
venue
3.00 pp
|
300.00
72.00
|
||
Gardening
Materials, pots
Seeds etc.
|
9.00
|
X 24
|
216
|
|
Logistics
Accommod’n.
Transport –
Refugees
Teachers
Meals*
|
Rent bus* or
public transport
13.00 ppd*
|
X 30
|
390.00
|
Fares – Aus-
Return
Visas 1*
Insurance
|
1562.00
Free
|
X 1 Aus
X1
|
1562.00
|
|
Follow-up
Evaluation
Reporting
Admin.
|
200.00
|
2000.00
|
||
Grand Total
|
Euro 8750
AUD 13,629
|
*
Depends where refugees will come from which option would be most
suitable.
·
Visas – single entry for one
month - free. Need letter from NGO
·
13 euros per day includes
food for teachers. – all organic and local
23 July 2018 email: We are concerned for teaching and designing in
challenging environments, like refugee camps or hostels for example, and
working with people who live there. There is a great need and interest for this
here but little knowledge and experience.
We have tried to gather as much data as we can in order to give you a
quick response. We cannot be really precise in the finances because we we
didn’t have the time to talk to people we know that work in the camps yet. When
we do so, we will know which camps people could come from, and their nationality,
and then we will calculate the transport and translation fees more precisely.
We have been already teaching Permaculture (PDCs, introductory and
specialized courses) and we can share a lot from our experience on working with
Permaculture in the Mediterranean climate, especially in water management, soil
regeneration, food production systems (Fotini)
And, energy production (Kostas)
SUE Ennis took out many Photos here as the document was too big to
easily send
Women’s PDC in Cesme Turkey – to be run
at Imece Koyu
Background
The situation in Turkey is much different from
Greece in the way of permanence. Many of the refugees here are planning on
living in Turkey for the foreseeable future. Permaculture can bring occupations
and allow people to meet many of their own needs while transforming their
camps.
In regards to translation- because so many of
the refugees here speak Turkish finding translators could be easier. Also Ali
has Arabic, Farsi eand contracts that could help with translation.
This is a village for women only though. The
course would be directed at women which might actually make it simpler in
regards to separating the genders.
Students: 24
Days: 24 teaching days excluding Fridays for religious
observance
Time: 10.00
am to 3.00 pm
Trainers: Rosemary Morrow (lead trainer), and
one from P4R
Bonnie Claire and one other from the
centre
4 trainee volunteers will also attend
Languages: Arabic and Farsi
1
AUD = 3.53 Turkish Lira– 22 July 2018
Materials
|
Per unit/day
|
Total Lira
|
||
Teachers
|
||||
Electricity
Projector
Whiteboard
String
Bulldog clips
Pens
Poster paper
Printing &
Photocopying
|
With venue
May borrow
1
1
1
70
1 roll
24
|
0.10
|
If Bought
300 pages
|
240
156
5
10
25
20
4760
30
|
Translators*
|
x 24 days
|
|||
Translated
materials
|
||||
Learners
|
To be decided
|
x 24 learners
|
||
Books/pens
Rulers
Scissors
Erasers
Sitting mats
|
2.50
21
12
|
17 lira
|
60.00
144.00
204.00
|
|
Gardening
Materials, pots
Seeds etc.
|
10.00 pp
|
240.00
|
||
Logistics
Accommod’n.
Transport -free
Meals*
|
Free *
Pay for petrol
Not yet known
|
100.00
|
||
Trainers
|
||||
Fares – Aus-
Return
Visas 2*
Insurance
|
1000Aud
Free
400 Aud
|
X 2 Aus
X 2
X 2
|
7060.00
2824.00
|
|
Follow-up
Evaluation
Reporting
Admin.
|
1000.00
|
|||
Grand Total
|
17,617 Lira
AUD5.000
|
* I have contacted a range of people I know who speak Arabi
and Farsi as a first and second language. Many Syrian farmer refugees speak Turkish
·
Visas – single entry for one
month - free. Need letter from NGO
·
Meals – there is a Syrian
woman who would cook for the duration of the course – cost to be decided – need
to pay for lunch for participants
·
Accommodation – need for pay
for water electricity about 5 lira pp/day
APPENDICES
Afghan Peace Volunteers (APVs): Essays of Light II/ Repairing our decaying soil, air,
water and food
Bradford, Andrew: Taking Refuge in Permaculture.
Article in Permaculture Magazine. No.26
www.permaculture.co.uk
https://www.lcps-lebanon.org/agendaArticle.php?id=22 Article
on Need for small scale diverse
development, and, educational opportunities in refugee settlements.
Sammi-Jo Lee posted Jan 18, 2018 in YES
magazine, Farming brings refugees closer
to home through Food and Community. Karen
farmers from Myanmar resettle in North Carolina.
Lemontree trust: http://lemontreetrust.org/film-and-interactive/ Transforming Land, Transforming Lives
In
2017, Lemontree trust supported Coventry University in establishing gardens in
Domus II camp in northern Kurdistan.
Morrow, Rosemary: 2nd
Permaculture course in Kabul, 2018
Report. This course has led
to permaculture graduates starting three gardens and being invited by Jesuit
Refugee Service to give some lessons as part of a life-skills program for IDPs.
Soils Lebanon
https://www.soils-permaculture-lebanon.com/publications.html In 2016 Soils Lebanon, sponsored by Mercy
Corps, established gardens to assist with
food security in six refugee camps.
Their blog is excellent for refugee and small-scale situations.
Permacultureforrefugees(P4R) Permaculture
for Refugees in Camps booklet here
https://theconversation.com/how-gardening-can-improve-the-mental-health-of-refugees-98700?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2028%202018%20-%20105169297&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2028%202018%20-%20105169297+CID_da5de986a67894a0303149a875e8f124&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=How%20gardening%20can%20improve%20the%20mental%20health%20of%20refugees
https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/operations/bangladesh/infographic/bangladesh-cox’s-bazar-refugee-response-4w-camp-level-31-july-2018
Bangladesh:
Bangladesh
Association for Sustainable Development.
basd-bd.org, Face book: BASD
House-110, Monipuripara, Dhaka-1215. Bangladesh
Phone: 88-02-9102326, Cell: 00 88 01713451849
E-mail- <bsgomes52@gmail.com>, basdbd91,@gmail.com,
Skype- boniface.gomes1, Website: basd-bd.org, Face
book: BASD
Excerpt from email 8 May 2018– reprinted by permission from
Boniface Gomes, Executive Director
Greetings and best wishes to you from Dhaka.
The following is my visit sharing with you.
I came back visiting the Rohinga Refugee Camp at Cox's
Bazar with Juliet Gomes (Board member), Akalchur Rahman (Staff), Remington
(Student) and one of my friend (Jessica from CSI). We met there some of the
Rohinga Leaders and community people in 2 camps. We stayed there for about 3
hours, talked to them and visited their homes and surrounding.
It is unthinkable and pathetic, these people are
living as animals (because) they are very much vulnerable and helpless. No
work, no trees, no shade, 1 million + people of all ages are sitting here and
there, going around, gossiping, quarreling etc., some are in the line for food
/ materials collection/ health check up, hundreds of children playing in the
roads and around etc.
They have hundreds of problems and needs. Immediate
needs are - 1) assistance for prevention of land sliding as rain started, many
of the houses are in real risk and in danger, different kinds of grasses may be
planted now there etc. 2) need shade / place need to be cooler, no trees within
4/5 km, plantation like Neem and other wood, fruit and medicinal plants needed
sooner, 3) need to teach them waste management, it is a big crisis in
everywhere, it is easier to engage those people for doing this, just need
inspiration and guidance, 4) need to teach / inspire the community people for
cultivation of vegetables beside their rooms, on ground / hanging using sack
bag / pots etc. it is not easy but very important, it is possible using
permaculture techniques. People showed keen interest of doing these works when
we talked to them as almost no vegetables are available in the nearby shops or
nearby villages, if available then price is very high and many other needs and
crisis.
In this situation, we need to take some immediate
steps at least for the above issues. If anyone is interested for detail sharing
or further discussion I will be pleased to do that.
With kind regards, peace and harmony.
Subsequent emails from BASD show excellent
innovative examples of small scale gardens and animal systems started through
this project.
REPORTING,
MONITORING AND EVALUATIVE INSTRUMENTS OF P4R
This example is a Report of permaculture training with refugees in Spain
– questionnaire and response from Candelo Vargas, permaculture teacher
Name of project: PDC at La Bolina
Organisation: La Bolina
Restautation Project
Stage of project: Refugees in permanent
homes in rural areas in Spain Type of project: Full PDC + agroecology for creating livelihoods and internships in other local projects.
Your role in the project PDC Teacher
Site of the project Salleres, Granada, Spain
Starting date: 12 February
2017 Final date: 23
February 2017
Your name: Candela Vargas Address:
Torre de Machuca n4 Bloque 2 6A
Phone: 0034 601465875/
email
candelavp@gmail.com/fax etc
Budget:
About the project
|
At the beginning of the
project
|
By the end of the project
|
|
1.Whose ideas was this
project and did it change?
|
The La Bolina project was created during a residency organized by
the Eroles Project in Catalunya during the summer 2016. The initial idea was
to offer refugees a center where they could have a pause during their path
for a secure place to restart their lives. It slowly changed into setting up
a structure to offer opportunities and housing in a rural area in Spain, and
develop land-based regenerative activities to offer employment and promote
self-employment of refugees and migrants.
The PDC is one event with 3 facilitators within the long term
project to design partly who to use the land for the La Bolina project.
|
Create an integral cooperative
conformed by local resident, the La Bolina team, refugees and migrants.
Repopulate villages in the area of Valle del Lecrin.
There were 5 original members of
La Bolina project that slowly had been expanding to integrate some new core
members, interns and other many participants.
During the PDC there was 2 main facilitators and support from many of the core participants. |
|
2. Managed Individually
Team?
Management style and
processes
|
Team effort in an open and flat structure style. Collaborative and
no objection decision making procedure. Core team made up of 9 people and a
network with more people supporting the project.
The PDC was planned by 1 facilitator that gave space for
contributions and changes to any of the members that wanted to get involved.
|
At the time the project is
restructuring it self a little bit to find how to collaborate in the best
way. Always looking at flat structure models.
In the PDC the different sections where
guided by members with interest and capability to hold the sessions.
|
|
3. How did participants find out about it?
TV
Radio
Posters in public
Newspapers
Facebook etc
Other?
|
Personal contacts from refugees and through contact with different
organizations that work with refugees and migrants.
Some through other social networks
|
Some PDC participants throught Permaculture
social networsk.
|
|
3. Overall goal and
mission of the project?
|
Our
mission is to repopulate a network of villages in the province of Granada,
Spain which were once thriving and now at risk of extinction due to
depopulation and damaging land based practices. We aim to collaboratively
work the land, create viable and sustainable livelihoods, and regenerate both
the ecosystems and the economy of the area
The
PDC objectives where to start the analysis process to decide how to work
together in an efficient way and plan the use some of the lands of the
project.
|
Further courses will be useful to
keep planning and finding ways to work together efficiently.
|
|
4. Lesser objectives
1.
2.
3.
4
|
The
Regeneration Project in Granada seeks to find new ways to respond to the
interconnected crisis we live today. We aim to be a win-win-win project
tackling ‘multiple problematic factors’ to create positive, viable, humane
and sustainable solutions now and for the future.
We
are addressing:
- the depopulation of Spanish countryside and villages - food sovereignty - degradation of land - high local unemployment - socio economic integration of migrants and refugees>
Other
important objectives of the PDC were to gather some new people that could be
interested in joining La Bolina, and ensure that all participants are
knowledgeable in Permaculture design.
|
As the PDC
was held in another project facilities (La Alquería de Moraima).
One more objective was to establish good relationships with them and guido on how to transform a bit their working style into a more permaculture minded hotel. |
|
5. Who owns the land or
venue?
Access and security of
tenure
Were there any problems
with the place?
|
La Alquería de Moraima
A rural hotel in a small village called Cadiar. They want to be more ecologically sound and give a new twist to the management style of the business. |
During the PDC we helped with
some few practical things and make some design suggestions for possible
developments. The managers are considering to implement some of the ideas and
we might plan for other courses working specifically with the Alquería
members.
|
|
6. The Challenges of
this project
Among the refugees
Among the project staff
Among the local citizens
Other?
|
Among the refugees: necessity for
engagement for a long term vision and patience to accompany the project, the
project will offer economical security once it is functioning, but until
then, refugees or migrants might need to find/create a job.
Among the project staff: lack of
financial resources, adaptation of personal life to the necessities of the
project.
Other: challenge of getting in touch
with more women (migrants or refugees).
Lack of openness and collaboration of the big NGOs working in the
field of asylum.
|
During the PDC the main
challenges were:
The need of translation (Spanish/English)
To have to both design for La
Bolina project without being on the site.
Design for the Alquería (The place were we where) without having full engagement of the community members. And the unbalance on capabilities from one group and the other. Also the requirement from the Alquería to do a lot of practical work that was also usefull work for the PDC and to keep the balance between practical and permaculture theory. |
|
7. Were the goal,
mission and objectives maintained?
Yes
No
Mainly
Please write something
about this
|
One of the beauties of this project is that is it organic and
iterative, meaning it is constantly adapting to the realities it faces.
The goal and mission are maintained, the activities and sometimes
short term objectives are adapted to the situations.
|
During the PDC the educational
objectives were fulfilled, and none of the wider objectives had change.
|
|
8. What were the main
problems with this project?
Your solutions to these?
|
As the facilitator I can say that the main problems I face
collaborating with La Bolina project is a lack of a consistent coordinators
that ensure communications and agreements to reach the relevant members.
|
For further curses I ask to have
one person that will take the coordination role from their side and will be
present from the very first communications and present in the course.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
What really worked well?
Would you recommend
these to subsequent projects of this type?
|
It worked to have a big part of the core team taking the course
together. So they can plan their common project.
|
It was very good to have some of
the refugees as involved members of the La Bolina core team and very willing
to take an active role in the PDC.
|
|
About you
|
|
|
|
Were your skills and knowledge
Very good
Adequate
Not good enough
Please list a few areas
|
My skill where adecuate to guide the groups energy and manage the
goup learning proccess.
I am very knowledgeable to cover the content required for a PDC. |
It would have been useful to have
someone else to support the learning process of the group.
|
|
What were the hardest
things for you?
What would have helped
before you started?
What support would you
have liked during the project
|
I would have like to have another engaged facilitator to lift the
course with me.
|
It would have helped me to know
more about the group of refugees that was involved and understand better
their cultural behaviors.
|
|
What recommendations would you make for anyone starting work
similar to yours?
|
To do several small workshops first to get a feeling of the
coworkers and refugees, and the dynamics between them.
|
To do the courses on a space
managed by the core group.
|
|
What is important for
Permaculture for Refugees to know and understand about your project
|
La Bolina is a long living situation where some of the Refugees
are given the role of organizer.
That gives a lot of empowerment to the refugees, anyhow it is important to evaluate first (as with any other member) what type of responsibilities they are capable to take. |
La Bolina is slowly getting more
refugees to come and participate from the activities. With the intention to
engage them and give them an option to earn a living from agriculture in the
region.
|
|
How do you judge the
success of your project
|
I judge the success of the PDC by the results on the design
presentations, the social bonding of the groups, the feedback sessions with
participants, staff and organizers.
|
|
|
A. Refugees in camps
1. On the road, emergency stage e.g. Rohinga or IDPS eg Philippines
2. In makeshift camps ie. Centre of first reception e.g. Greece
3. In semi-permanent camps
4. In Long term camps e.g, Lebanon
5. Long term refugees
B. Refugees in communities
1. Homeless under bridges, squatting eg. Afghanis in Paris
2. Temporary homes e.g. German and Greece
3. Permanent homes in cities e.g. UK and Australia
4. Permanent homes in rural areas or farms e.g. Australia, Spain, Italy, France
5. Deserted village to be restored
C. Refugees returning home?
Most of the refugees seem to have an intention to be in Spain for several years, but to return home at some point to fulfill their dreams.
D. Internally displaced people, (IDPs)
1. Natural disasters e.g. earthquakes, typhoons,
2. Man made disasters e.g. war, chemical spills
E. Other?..............................................................................
TYPES OF REFUGEE PROJECT
A. Teaching and learning permaculture
1. Full PDC
2. Introductory course
3. Kitchen and/or school garden
4. Nutrition gardens
5. Full camp design
6. Preparing to move on, or, return home
B. Technical skills and boot camp courses
1. Plant propagation, tree planting,
2. Natural building
3. Greywater cleaning
4. Harvesting water
5. Compost and soil nutrition
6. Regenerating waste or toxic land
7. Other……….
C. Social strategies
1. Meeting procedures, AVP, NVC and conflict resolution
2. Assisting with group work and project identification
3. Cultural exchanges including local residents
4. Bioregional enhancement
D. Economic and livelihood
1. LETS, bioregionalism
2. Teach about credit, budgeting and interest
3. Set up internal loan and savings groups
5. Teach high standard skills for markets
6. Identify market niches
7. Income generation
__________________________________________________________________________
[1] Only 1% of refugees are ever resettled.
The Global Compacts for Migration and
Refugees are historic agreements that the UN is negotiating right now and that
aim to provide a support network and framework for those on the move due to
conflict and crisis. We need to make sure that our leaders first see these
people as human beings with stories and history, to prompt them to sign up to
the Global Compacts.
[2] Video See appendices
[3] Permaculturefor Refugees.org Booklet See appendices
[4] https://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/op_reports/wfp287733.pdf JOINT STRATEGY for Enhancing Self-Reliance in Protracted Refugee
Situations
[5] UNHCR Emergency Handbook, Camp Coordination, Camp Management., Points,
3, 4 5 on Risks Faced by management. https://emergency.unhcr.org/entry/108625/camp-coordination-camp-management-cccm
[6] Elizabeth Cullen Dunn: The
Failure of Refugee Camps. The Boston
Review. A Political and Literary Forum.
September 28, 2015
http://bostonreview.net/editors-picks-world/elizabeth-dunn-failure-refugee-camps
[7] For its part, the UN International
Organization for Migration (IOM) also forecasts 200 million
environmental migrants by 2050, moving either within their countries or across
borders, on a permanent or temporary basis. Many of them would be coastal
population. https://reliefweb.int/report/world/climate-migrants-might-reach-one-billion-2050
